the name of a Hebrew month, answering to the end of February and beginning of March, the 12th of their sacred, and 6th of their civil year. On the 7th day of it, the Jews keep a feast for the death of Moses; on the 13th, they have the fast of Easter; and on the 14th, they celebrate the feast of Purim, for their deliverance from Haman's conspiracy.—As the lunar year, which the Jews followed in their calculations, is shorter than the solar, by about 11 days, which at the end of three years make a month, they then intercalate a 14th month, which they call Vendel, or the second Adar.